First Slate Quarry in Western Vermont

First Slate Quarry in Western Vermont is a Vermont historical marker in Fair Haven, Rutland County.

Scotch Hill Road, north of Griffith Pond Road, Fair Haven

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This area of Vermont is known for its high quality slate; the first quarry was opened on Scotch Hill in 1839 by Alonson Allen & Caleb Ranney. Allen began the first manufacture of roofing slate in Vermont in 1848. By 1869 there were seventeen quarries in Fair haven of which eleven were on Scotch Hill. Quarrying of slate was important to the economy of the area and brought in many skilled Welsh immigrants who were familiar with the quarrying of slate in their native Wales.

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1823 · Vermont (Carey, 1823) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1832 · New Hampshire (A. Finley, 1832) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1841 · Vermont. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1841 · New Hampshire & Vermont (H. S. Tanner, 1841) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1869 · Rutland County, Vermont. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Vermont (Carey, 1823), 1823, covering the location of First Slate Quarry in Western Vermont, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Vermont (Carey, 1823), 1823, covering this location. Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Marker data: Vermont Division for Historic Preservation

First Slate Quarry in Western Vermont

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